Monday, 11 April 2016

Emotions Drive People…People Drive Performance


Organisations hire individuals who have talent and skills, but performance and results depend upon these individuals’ ability to work with colleagues and create a team that functions as one unit. Herein, lies the challenge and the opportunity.
When individuals with high potential form a circle of trust and cohesiveness, focused on a shared vision, playing together with passion and high energy, they form a team that is unstoppable and capable of infinite achievement.
Greater the goal, greater is the need to build a team that can pool its energies to make it possible. Individual effort can achieve limited results, but interdependence and synergy can move mountains. It is this realization that creates a distinction between what could have been possible, and what is actually achieved.

The whole then becomes greater than the sum of its parts!

Team building is hard work. It is a continuous process that never ends. As new members join a team and some members exit, as the environment rapidly changes and internal goalposts move, a team has to consistently reinvent and rejuvenate itself to adapt and meet new challenges that are constantly thrown up for it to face. Individual identities have to be replaced by shared goals, and the focus has to be on harnessing individual strengths and resources within. Quest activities keep throwing up these life like situations to test the teams’ readiness to meet these challenges, and reinforce the positive qualities needed to constantly adapt, yet hold on to core values that creates world class teams.
Team building is an art. Activities like the Big Picture and MasterChef sessions bring out the delicate nuances of team building that involve active and effective communication. Authentic feedback becomes a way of life, and not a one off action. Play becomes a means of expressing passion and a desire to win. It pushes the boundaries of creativity and innovation, and allows participants to take healthy and productive risks, make the good mistakes, and discover new possibilities within existing challenges.
Team building is around a vision. Without a common and shared vision, a team cannot harness its energy in a common direction. Interventions like the Firewalk Session, demonstrate the importance of how a Vision and its communication can ensure fear and doubt has no place in a team. A dynamic and vibrant team, will keep testing its limits, pushing its boundaries and moving out if its comfort zone to accomplish extra ordinary goals. When mind wins over matter, all is possible.
Abraham Lincoln said, “If I had 6 hours to cut a tree, I would spend the first 4 hours sharpening the axe.” Team building is sharpening the axe. Invest in it, and its spinoffs are huge. It will astound you, and the results will make you wish you had done it much earlier.
Team building is everywhere. In families, communities, societies, corporations and great nations. Building effective teams needs virtually everything, from leadership to delegation, from communication to conflict resolution, from visioning to empowering, from doing to facilitation, the works.
Master team building, master yourself. The principles of team building are also applicable in our individual self. Given that we are so full of apparent contradictions and multiple talents and competencies, we need to channelize and focus to make ourselves energetic and productive, rather than wasted and blunt. We need to rise above the inner conflicts and fears, and move towards our individual dreams and goals with force and vigour.

From group sizes of 5 to 750, Quest Outbounds provide high end interventions in team building and new age leadership. We work with select clients, who expect nothing but the best, and have a burning desire to achieve their extraordinary dreams!

We facilitate world class teams that deliver results!

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